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Celtic punk bank The Pogues have launched a signature brand of Irish whiskey. Made by West Cork Distillers, "it's said to be Ireland’s highest malt-containing blended Irish whiskey, with 50% grain and 50% single malt liquid." That's Whiskey with a "e".

As humans, we tend to think that we have a reasonably good idea of what the universe is all about. We live on a small blue planet orbiting a star on the fringes of a thoroughly unremarkable galaxy in a universe that extends basically forever. No matter how far out you go, you’ll always feel at home, because the universe is pretty much the same in every possible location. Because of this, it’s suggested that the laws of physics don’t change and that what we find in our galactic neighborhood we’d also find billions of light years away. This homogeneous theory is called the Copernican principle, and it’s an axiom on which much of our scientific knowledge about the universe is built. It is also, very possibly, wrong.

In the 60's and 70's the BBC threw away many early film recordings of their Television output. In the process the BBC lost 106 episodes of the TV series Doctor Whoin an effort to clean house and make space. These episodes were from the earliest part of the series, in which actor William Hartnell played the first Doctor, and Patrick Troughton played the second. It was thought that the film was destroyed and the episodes were permanently lost.

But now those films have been found -in Ethiopia! The original tapes had been sold to the the Ethiopian Radio and Television Agency after being aired just once. Now the BBC is negotiating the return of those episodes, and hopes they may be back in the UK in time for the Doctor Who 50th anniversary celebration.

In the 1960s and 1970s, there was no market for home video. In fact, the concept did not exist. Even more, few TV programmers could envision a time in which decades-old TV shows would be used to fill hundreds of round-the-clock TV channels. But to legions of Doctor Who fans, the return of the missing episodes is an exciting chapter in the history of the science fiction series. Here's a list of the missing episodes.

I recently watched the entire Box Set of the series of The Addams Family and it was, for the most part, excellent but this wasn't on it! Lurch does the Lurch on the TV variety show Shivaree. Oct 30th 1965

If you can't afford the book at least you can buy the staples. The staples taken from the comic book "Amazing Fantasy #15" the first appearence of Spider-Man are for sale for $50.00 on eBay. Slowly slowly catchy Spidey...ugh, sorry.

Luke Skywalkers grubby Tatooine stained sand coloured cotton drill Levis have sold for $36,000 at auction in the US.

Text from auction: Screen-worn ''hero'' costume pants worn by Mark Hamill in his career-defining role as Luke Skywalker in the 1977 epic film ''Star Wars'', the first in the groundbreaking trilogy. As one of the top-grossing films of all time, George Lucas' first film in the successful series won six Oscars, among many other awards. In a galaxy far, far away, Hamill donned these iconic pants as the Jedi Knight of all Jedi Knights, wearing the costume pants throughout much of the film. Sand-colored ''cotton drill'' Levi's pants are purposely distressed to display wear, with dirt to back right pocket and in spots to front of pant legs. In fact, in an accompanying article, Mark Hamill said of the pants, ''By the way, those pants I wore were just bleached Levi's with the tag still in them.'' Pants measure 29'' waist x 37'' in length with two 6'' slits up each side. Customized by the famous London costumier, Bermans & Nathans, original tag sewn to inseam reads: ''Bermans & Nathans / 40 Camden St., / London N.W. 1'' tag with a ''Mark Hamill / 10490 Luke / Star Wars'' printed in type beneath it. Very good condition overall. Also with tags attached from both Christie's, where the pants were originally auctioned, and Sotheby's, from its 1998 auction.